The Cecil Whig., 1887-07-02
ON THE EATL.
An Innocent Abr"ad-A Trip Through West
Virginia, Ohio aud Illinois.

Dear Hhiy:-Ou MAY lIth we bid fare.
well Ia our friends i'll Cecil and boarded
the Il 10 T.. NJ. t-huuud train at sin
! gerly station. on the new l. X .. rail
| road. aud started or our way toward our
new field of Labor, aud III ii few minutes
We were crossing the bridge over the
| raging slu>quchanna from which we took
a parting view ut the fast rcceding hills
| OF Cecil. Streaming on we arrived in
Washington about 10 o'clock. The cur
tain3 of night having closed around us,
we breathed the prayer learned at our
mother knee, and closed OuI eyes to the
dangers that surrounded us. We awoke
at } o clock Thursday morning and found
! ourselt at Oakland, w. Va , among the
! mountains, which is tle biggest
country we ever saw for Ii lis, little hills,
medum-SiZad hills, big hills. rough hills,
| smooth hills. some covered with timber
and some with none. Tncse hills, how
ever, did not impede our travel, for we
went through the tunnels some twenty
i'll number and ranging from - yards TO
| two miles III length. We did not notice
| post fence this side of Washington, and
very little ui any other klui. West Nlr-
ginia houses seem To uc small. apparently
not more than I2Alt feet aud 4 feet to
Cle square, - FlcNCl lt'ui bhc taI Will
dow, and weather bearded barn fashion,
cup ami DOWN. We saw very little grow
ing grain, and once in while we saw a
goaS sticking up on the mountain side.
Several little saw mills were noticed and
paths up the side of the mountains where
they Shopt logs down endwayS to the
mills t" be sawed mt" lumber, to suit the
purposes of the country. As we neared
la -,
change, and in central Ohio the land be
gan to level up, and we could see Splen-
did farms on every side. OliO is spotted
with beautiful towns and villages. Mans
Held Is handsome little city, containing
5''oo lnhao'tantS' we arrived at lIiiIn,
neat little town, at dusk on thursday
evening, 6O' miles from Baltimore. Seven
niles further on is FostOrla, where there
are several gas wells, the three principal
ones send up lame from 80 to III feet,
lighting up the whole town and sur
rounding country. Soon after passing
TINS place we again repeated our prayer
ana closing our eyes knew nothing more
until Friday morning, when we awoke
lying along the romantic shores Of Lake
Michigan, nearing the great city of Chi
c4so, where We arrived at 30 \. NJ.
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several hourS' ana COOK IN "ha1 we could
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